AP or just a dream?

[AstralSP]

In the early hours of this morning I think I might have had my first OBE. I was having trouble getting to sleep, then I don't know when I fell asleep. I was having a dream it went from one sequence which led to me being in my bedroom listening to music on my mp3 dancing and walking around my room. Suddenly my music stopped playing, and was followed by the noise you get when you cannot pick up a signal on the radio, then to a single high pitched tone. For some strange reason, in my dream, I decide to close my eyes and focus on the tone, I imagine myself asleep in a different bed, and then I feel like I am being sucked out of my body. I couldn't see anything in my room and I force myself out of the room by going through the window. In doing so I felt I was being pulled back, but managed to go through the window and I see and feel myself floating in the sky and I could see my street and house in the sky. I decided to fly, so I concentrated on going straight to get the hang of it but failed, by falling thus ending the dream sequence. When I woke up I had sensations of tingling or vibrations, which stopped soon after I opened my eyes. One thing I did notice that I was thinking whilst this was happening. Usually my dreams are just a set of of wierd and absurd sequences which are related to my life.

Sorry for being so long winded, but I want to know if I had actually an OBE or was it just a dream, because I stopped trying to astral project because I didn't have the time or peace in my house. I only started to read about AP two days before this dream to get focused and interested in AP again.

[Stookie]

One key indicator when it's an AP is a thought or feeling of "OMG I am astral projecting". If you don't really question it and just roll with it, it's probably more of a dream. Being aware of what exactly is going on is a key aspect of AP. But dreams of AP mean that you're probably not too far from it.

[untermenschen]

I agree that your experience was more than just a dream. It might be similar to what i have happen often. I have had one definite Etheric/astral projection and my chakras wer going crazy for like 2 days afterwards and all my body energy felt like it was flowing in an opposite direction for several weeks, but since then what i have had is that i will awaken in the morning usually and i will be paralysed, i can hear sounds/music that i might have playing - sometimes i use astral audio aids - there are heaps of good ones to buy cheap online - and so onece the intense sometimes roaring soun d of the paralysis passes i easily leave my body  - so it feels that way, but i can't see sometimes. I ask for clarity and i get it and i am thinking to myself, "wow, i am out of my body this is damn exciting" i might get a little way from my room but then there are things which seem to resemble more like i am lucidly dreaming - last night this happened and i left out the front door and it was dark outside, i floated about and came back inside but there was an old Datsun car in the front room of my terrace flat. also this happened at around 8.30am and i know that it wasnt actually dark then. I had some tingling upon awakening but nothing like the chakra explosion when i first had an AP/EP.

So i am having some kind of Astral-lucid dream hybrid. How do i make it less lucid and more astral? For me i think this will go to another level when i finally encounter another being who is on the astral. Until then these types of dreams/travels remind me of the being in some kind of De Chirico-esque landscape, with fixed buildings but odd objects like statues there
My dreams are usually an absurd kaleidoscope of events and words that i have picked up or heard in passing. These Astral-lucid dreams are also very much more linear in that there are locations that i can move through and that more or less remain to be the same location and do not suddenly turn into my childhood hometown or something. that said, i did have an experience that felt very real and i was very conscious but yuet when i left my body it was into a room that is not my own and i think is nobodiy's but my own imagination's -